College Board

• The empty desks — one for each student who drops out each hour of every school day, according to the College Board — are part of its Dont Forget Ed! campaign.
(msnbc.com)
• The College Board last week issued a medal to its outgoing president. Former West Virginia Gov. Gaston Caperton has headed the organization, which oversees the SAT, for the past 13 years.
(msnbc.com)
• The State College Area School Board officially has a $116,874,909 budget for the 2012-13 school year. The Board of Directors adopted the final budget at its regular meeting Monday night.
(State College)
• Tom Fuentes had been dead just 72 hours before the long-fractured community college board on which he sat decided to appoint a replacement. It seemed like a rather stunning affront to the Fuentes family.
(Orange County Register)
• JACKSON — After years of delay, members of the states College Board will again try to raise $34 million in private money to endow Mississippis three historically black universities.
(Hattiesburg American)
• Green Bay and a yet-to-be-determined location in central Wisconsin have been approved by the Medical College of Wisconsin board of trustees as sites for new medical education campuses, the school announced Monday.
(Milwaukee Journal Sentinel)
• You may have seen or heard about the College Board ad campaign that criticizes the American education system. College Board displayed 857 empty desks to represent the number of hourly high school dropouts in the U.S.
(Suite101.com)
• LAWRENCEVILLE – The Saint Pauls College Board of Trustees vows to appeal a recent accreditation decision and press forward for the future of the school. Last Thursday, President and CEO Eddie N. Moore Jr.
(Progress Index)
• An investigator from Oregons secretary of state office paid a visit to Mount Hood Community College earlier this week after a board member filed a complaint about alleged misconduct at the Gresham campus.
(Oregonian)
• There are still some details to work out, but all the decision-makers are on board. Lower divisions of college football already have a playoff, but the highest level has always used bowls and polls to determine its champion.
(Los Angeles Times)